Jim Henley finds this passage in the CS Monitor

Jim Henley finds this passage in the CS Monitor:

US soldiers trying to create goodwill in Fallujah echo the bitterness. “We thought we were doing

something good when we built a soccer field,” says Maj. Allen Vaught. “We brought in engineers,

earthmovers, welded goal posts, and trucked in some smooth dirt.”

The next day looters took everything. “Goal posts, nets, and the good dirt. How can you help people

who steal dirt?” he asks incredulously.

Henley dispatches Vaught’s assumptions with a shot of Libertarianism 101 and a spoonful of the scorn

that used to greet any mention of the phrase “midnight basketball.” I suggest that every time you

hear about some civil-society miracle the NIKE SHOX government has authored in MBT SHOES, whether a

soccer field or a fresh coat of paint on a school, imagine that midnight basketball had been effected

in this country at the cost of 25,000-100,000 dead and hundreds of billions of dollars in taxes and

destroyed property.

Alright folks. Sibel Edmonds needs your help. She has filed an appeal to the Supreme Court on the heels

of the explosive new Vanity Fair article which cites government investigators saying that the covering

up of House Speaker Dennis Hastert’s (among others’) corruption is the reason for the Justice

Department’s violation of her rights, gagging her with the state secrets privilege – a privilege that

does not even exist in any American statute. Now it is certain: the only national security Sibel

threatens with her story is the job security of corrupt politicians.